Stars are huge balls of hot glowing gases. Some of their special features are, constellations such as Hercules, Andromed and Pegasus, and Draco the Dragon. The Big Dipper is part of a constellation called Ursa Major. Star's sizes range from littler than Earth and bigger than the sun. The smallest star is called the white dwarf star. The red dwarf star can be 100x smaller than the sun. Yellowstars are medium sized stars. Blue giants are large and (of course) there is a giant star which is 10x bigger than the sun. The sun is a star and is 93 million miles from Earth. Stars turn hydrogen into energy to release as light. There are 400 billion stars in the Milky Way. There are 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the universe. Stars are often grouped in clusters. There is about a million in a cluster. There is 85 constellations.
A famous constellation, the Big Dipper. The streak is a shooting star.
STARS
By:Megan Maiers & Cassie Eidson